Ayn Rand?

[MrJohnGalt]

Any 2+2ers like Ayn Rand?

[fluxrad]

I think you'll find about 50+ libertarians on this board who think she embodied the second coming.

[lehighguy]

Never read her. And I'm a Libraterian. I suppose I should.

[tek]

If I can find her work in Cliff Note form I will...

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

You should be aware that Rand had no use for libertarians, calling us "The hippies of the right."

That being said, I appreciate a great deal of the objectivist philosophy.

[MMMMMM]

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I think you'll find about 50+ libertarians on this board who think she embodied the second coming.

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Not this one.

As I've posted before, I find (what I know of) her philosophy to be:

1) lacking in any sense of empathy or compassion for others

2) moralistic and somewhat controlling

3) overly simplistic

All of the above, in my opinion, are very serious flaws.

That's not to say she doesn't have *some* good ideas. The flaws however verge on being rather ruinous to her philosophy as a whole, in my opinion.

Also, she *doesn't* have enough of a laissez-faire outlook, such as would befit a true free thinker, Classic Liberal, or Libertarian.

[ACPlayer]

We agree.

Cheers

[Matty]

I could only get about halfway through any of her books, but I think I can summarize them by saying "greediness is godliness. [insert horrible plot line and character development] the end."

[DCWildcat]

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I could only get about halfway through any of her books, but I think I can summarize them by saying "greediness is godliness. [insert horrible plot line and character development] the end."

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Quoted for truth.

I think I actually felt dumber after finishing Atlas Shrugged and its 2000000 pages of 2 size font.

[SheetWise]

Second to Adam Smith.